ML Challenge Task Auditor
Mercor (client confidential) · Remote — United States · Remote
- Pay
- $70–90/hr
- Commitment
- hourly
- Hours / week
- ~40
- Source
- mercor
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Evaluate the quality, correctness, and methodological rigor of applied machine-learning tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess experiment design, model-selection reasoning, and evaluation methodology — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback. Basic Qualifications • 3+ years hands-on applied/experimental ML (experiment design, model selection, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation methodology) • Strong grasp of data-quality rigor: leakage detection, metric gaming, and train/test/CV hygiene • Proficiency with standard ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost) • Ability to critique ML claims against evidence and reproduce results Preferred Qualifications • Competition / benchmark experience (e.g., Kaggle) • Graduate research or publication record in applied ML • Prior task-grading or peer-review experience Note: this role evaluates applied/experimental ML rigor — it is not an LLM-application-building or MLOps role.
Eligible applicant countries
This role accepts applicants from:
- USA
Skills & domains
- ai-training
- rlhf
- sme
- annotation
- Data Analysis

